Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

The air of summer was sweeter than wine.

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Thus departed Hiawatha, Hiawatha the Beloved, In the glory of the sunset, In the purple mists of evening, To the regions of the home-wind, Of the Northwest-Wind, Keewaydin, To the Islands of the Blessed, To the Kingdom of Ponemah, To the Land of the Hereafter!

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Today is the blocks with which we build.

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Truths that startled the generation in which they were first announced become in the next age the commonplaces of conversation; as the famous airs of operas which thrilled the first audiences come to be played on hand-organs in the streets.

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Such was the wreck of the Hesperus, In the midnight and the snow! Christ save us all from a death like this, On the reef of Norman's Woe!

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We are all architects of faith, ever living in these walls of time.

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A millstone and the human heart are driven ever round, If they have nothing else to grind, they must themselves be ground.

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The star of the unconquered will, He rises in my breast, Serene, and resolute, and still, And calm, and self-possessed.

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Then followed that beautiful season... Summer.... Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the landscape Lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood.

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The air is full of farewells to the dying. And mournings for the dead.

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Being all fashioned of the self-same dust, let us be merciful as well as just

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They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.

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A stiff letter galls one like a stiff shirt collar -- whilst a sheet garnished here and there with a careless blot -- and here and there a dash -- but in the main full of excellent matter, is like a clever fellow in a dirty shirt whom we value for the good humour he brings with him and not for the garb he wears.

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History casts its shadow far into the land of song.

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Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.

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As great Pythagoras of yore, Standing beside the blacksmith's door, And hearing the hammers, as they smote The anvils with a different note, Stole from the varying tones, that hung Vibrant on every iron tongue, The secret of the sounding wire. And formed the seven-chorded lyre.

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The young may die, but the old must!

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In ourselves are triumph and defeat.

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

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The grave itself is but a covered bridge, Leading from light to light, through a brief darkness!

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